NC COLLISION CHECKER
Accurate & Automatic for Quality Control
A recent FastCAM innovation has been the development of collision checking in both FastNEST and FastPLOT. The idea is to replace the current visual checks for interference with computer based checks.
This is especially important in big and complex nests where even with the best efforts, a small overlap can be missed in what is visual checking and an overlap will ruin at least two parts. A simple bumped part can produce an expensive mistake in processing.
We see collision avoidance as having the same role as spelling and grammar checks in word processing in preventing mistakes reaching production. This new technology should be part of your Quality Control.
NCCHECKER can be added to the FastCAM system as a cost-plus option. Currently this software needs the power of a 3Ghz Pentium 4 or above.
You can set the system so that you will be prompted to run NCCHECKER whenever you output code. It will only add a minute.
